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Template:Short description Template:About Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Maximilian Michael Brooks (born May 22, 1972)<ref name="Bancroft book">Template:Cite book</ref> is an American actor and author. He is the son of comedian Mel Brooks and actress Anne Bancroft. Much of Brooks's writing focuses on zombie stories. He was a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point, New York.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Early lifeEdit

Brooks was born on May 22, 1972, in Manhattan, New York City. He is the son of actress Anne Bancroft and actor, director, producer, and writer Mel Brooks.<ref name=NYT>Template:Cite news</ref> His father is Jewish, while his mother was an Italian-American Catholic.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Brooks is dyslexic,<ref name="Yale">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and recalled that during the time in which he was growing up:

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...they didn't even call it a disability back then; it was just "laziness," "goofing off," "you're not trying hard enough." "You can do it but you don't want to do it" — that was a big one of my teachers. And my mother, one of the greatest, most successful actresses of her day, gave up her career, put her career on the shelf, to raise me, to be my educational advocate and to teach herself about dyslexia. ... She took, every year, all of my school books that I had to read to the Institute for the Blind and had them all read onto audio cassette so I could listen to my reading list. And if I hadn't been able to do that, I wouldn't have graduated high school. I can literally say that not only did my mother give me my life, she saved my life.{{#if:NPR Fresh Air (2017)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>|{{#if:|}}

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Brooks attended Crossroads School in Santa Monica, California. He studied at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, where he earned a bachelor's degree in history. He also attended graduate school, studying film at American University in Washington, D.C.<ref name="Yale" />

CareerEdit

WritingEdit

From 2001 to 2003, Brooks was a member of the writing team at Saturday Night Live.<ref name="SNL">Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2003, Brooks wrote his first book, The Zombie Survival Guide, a fictional survival manual about zombies. In 2006, Brooks wrote the follow-up World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, a novel on the same subject, set in the ten years following a zombie apocalypse. Paramount Pictures acquired the rights for a film adaptation, and Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B Entertainment, produced the film. In the October 2006 issue of Fangoria, Brooks stated that he would not be writing the screenplay for the motion picture, as he felt he was not an accomplished enough screenwriter to "do it right". J. Michael Straczynski wrote the first version of the screenplay.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Brooks wrote the introduction for the hardcover collected edition of Dynamite Entertainment's zombie miniseries Raise the Dead, released in 2007.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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Max Brooks with father Mel in 2010

In 2010, Brooks wrote the IDW comic book mini-series G.I. Joe: Hearts & Minds.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2012, Brooks published Closure, Limited and Other Zombie Tales, featuring the story of that name from The New Dead, along with three other short stories set in the World War Z universe.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2014, Broadway Books published The Harlem Hellfighters, a graphic novel which portrays a fictionalized account of the African American 369th Infantry Regiment's experiences in World War I, written by Brooks and illustrated by Caanan White.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Sony Pictures has purchased the rights to create a film of the novel, with Caleeb Pinkett and James Lassiter producing on behalf of Overbrook Entertainment.<ref name=film>Template:Cite news</ref>

He wrote the story for the 2016 film The Great Wall, starring Matt Damon.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2016, Brooks was invited to MineCon and announced that he was working on a new novel based on Minecraft,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> titled Minecraft: The Island, and in 2021, he published the sequel, Minecraft: The Mountain.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In August 2019, Brooks announced a new book, entitled Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre, about the cryptid Bigfoot.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It was released on June 16, 2020.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Acting and voice-over workEdit

Brooks has a number of other creative credits. As an actor, he has been seen in Roseanne, To Be or Not to Be, Pacific Blue, and 7th Heaven. He also has a career voicing animation: his voice has been featured in the animated shows Batman Beyond, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Justice League, and All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series. During the start of the third season of Lost Tapes, he was cast as himself in the zombie episode, telling the audience about how zombies come to be. He also appeared on the Spike TV series Deadliest Warrior, in which he represented the zombie team in the "Vampires vs. Zombies" episode, as one of the zombie experts along with Matt Mogk, founder of the Zombie Research Society.<ref>Template:Cite episode</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

Brooks has been married to playwright Michelle Kholos since 2003. They have one son and live in Venice, California.<ref name=NYT /> In October 2020, Brooks and his father appeared in a short video endorsing Joe Biden's presidential campaign.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

FilmographyEdit

Year Title Role Notes
1983 To Be or Not to Be Rifka's Son Film
1992 The Public Eye Teen at Thompson Street Film
Roseanne Snarky Customer Episode: "Terms of Estrangement"
1997 Pacific Blue Marty Rosen Episode: "Avenging Angel"
1999 7th Heaven Waiter Episode: "It Happened One Night"
Melrose Place Messenger Episode: "How Amanda Got Her Groove Back"
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2000 Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles Lt. Bernstein Voice, episode: "Swarm"
Godzilla: The Series Uncredited voice Episode: "Underground Movement"
Batman Beyond Howard Groote, Drew Voice, 6 episodes<ref name="btva" />
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command Tech, Ranger, Punk-Goon Voice, 2 episodes<ref name="btva" />
2001 Justice League Howie Voice, episode: "Secret Origins"<ref name="btva" />
2004 Seen Short film
2010 Satan Hates You Reporter Film
Lost Tapes Himself Episode: "Zombies"

BibliographyEdit

ProseEdit

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  • Minecraft: The Mountain (2021)
  • Minecraft: The Village (2023)
  • Tiger Chair: A Short Story (2024)

ComicsEdit

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